Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He moved to Hollywood in 1948 and was propelled to international fame with his role in the English-language film Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), followed by the leading male role in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn. In 1958, he played the lead as Frenchman Emile De Becque in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa (1954), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, Count Your Blessings (1959), Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969). (Via Wikipedia)
- Origin
- Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Born
- September 18, 1916
- Died
- December 24, 1994 (29 years ago, at 78)